From barricades to Bonaparte (1848-1851) -- Blood and empire (1852) -- Enter Haussmann (1853) -- A nonessential war (1854) -- A queen visits (1855) -- What goes up . . . (1856-1857) -- More and more (1858) -- Dreams of glory (1859) -- Suddenly larger (1860) -- Turning point (1861) -- Les Misérables de Paris (1862) -- Scandal (1863-1864) -- Death and taxes (1865) -- Crisis (1866) -- A setting sun (1867) -- Twenty years later (1868) -- Haussmann in trouble (1869) -- Finale (1870) -- An end and a beginning (1870-1871)

"Traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades."--